Whereas in the following piece concern for the loss of biodiversity in non-human species is reported in science journals –along with efforts to maintain their survival– in this article the impending loss of a specific human race is implicitly hailed as “progress.” **
Half the world’s mammals are declining in population and more than athird probably face extinction, said an update Monday of the “RedList,” the most respected inventory of biodiversity.
A comprehensive survey of mammals included in the annual report by the International Union for Conservation of Nature(IUCN), which covers more than 44,000 animal and plant species, showsthat a quarter of the planet’s 5,487 known mammals are clearly at riskof disappearing forever.
But the actual situation may be even grimmer because researchershave been unable to classify the threat level for another 836 mammalsdue to lack of data.
“In reality, the number of threatened mammals could be as high as36 percent,” said IUCN scientist Jan Schipper, lead author of themammal survey, in remarks published separately in the US-based journalScience.
The most vulnerable groups are primates, our nearest relatives on the evolutionary ladder, and marine mammals, including several species of whales, dolphins and porpoises.
“Our results paint a bleak picture of the global status of mammals worldwide,” said Schipper.
The revised Red List, unveiled at the IUCN’s World ConservationCongress in Barcelona, is further evidence that Earth is undergoing thefirst wave of mass extinction since dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago, many experts say.
Over the last half-billion years, there have only been five other periods of mass extinction.
The Red List classifies plants and animals in one of half-a-dozen categories depending on their survival status.
**Genocide. We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: In1948 the United Nations defined genocide — in part — as “actscommitted with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,ethnical, racial or religious group, … deliberately inflicting on thegroup conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physicaldestruction in whole or in part.” I don’t know about you butthat sounds exactly what the recent report and certainly countlessothers have said is taking place right now; that certain entities areinflicting on ‘the group’ – us — conditions of life, calculated tobring about our physical destruction in whole or in part.” Can youimagine what the reaction would have been if this report was referringto blacks, Asians or mestizos?
Well, let me answer that for you.
Theirtaxpayer funded, corporate financed racial pressure groups would haveswung into action using threats of withheld votes and campaigncontributions demanding that Washington DC marginalize EuropeanAmericans through the legislative and judicial process. They would haveflooded the airwaves with heartrending tales of impending doom andwhite injustice. In the meantime out on the streets their cohorts wouldin all likelihood be engaged in other forms of protest – violentprotest with Caucasians as their targets of hate. Unfortunately though,many European Americans are either too busy making a living to pay higher taxes with an inflated dollar; … all the while assuming political leaders were taking care of whatlittle they know about such matters; all the while lost in the fantasyworld of television, pornography or whatever else passes forentertainment these days. — Roman